FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 26
Source: Reuters
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1730 GMT on Sunday. * Indicates new or updated item. * KANAAN - A police source and residents said gunmen in army uniforms kidnapped 25 Shi'ite villagers late on Saturday from the small town of Kanaan, in Diyala province north of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Mortars or rockets landed in the vicinity of a U.S. military base in Baghdad, the U.S. military said, declining to say if there was any damage or casualties. A spokesman said the attack came from just outside Sadr City, a Shi'ite militia stronghold in northeast Baghdad, and that mortars or rockets were fired at the Sunni district of Adhamiya from the same site. * BAQUBA - Police in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, found the bodies of 25 people, including seven teenagers blindfolded and each with a single gunshot wound to the head, in various parts of Baquba in the past 24 hours, police said. BAGHDAD - Sunni clerics said militants had attacked Sunni mosques in west Baghdad. RAMADI - The U.S. military said it launched air strikes and fired artillery to help a tribe in western Anbar after an attack by al Qaeda. "Al Qaeda burned homes and killed members of the tribe using small arms fire and mortars," the military said in a statement, adding it had no casualty figures. Sattar al-Buzayi, head of the Anbar Salvation Council, an umbrella group of tribes in Anbar, said tribal fighters had raided an al Qaeda stronghold and killed 55 militants and arrested 25. He said nine tribal fighters were killed. HAQLANIYA - U.S. forces said they found 11 bodies near the town of Haqlaniya, west of Baghdad. A U.S. statement said the 10 men and one youth died from gunshots. HASWA - A car bomb killed five people and wounded 23 in a crowded market in Haswa, a small town 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Police in the regional capital Hilla said six or seven were killed and up to 27 wounded. BAGHDAD - Gunmen clashed with guards for one of the country's top Sunni politicians in western Baghdad's Adl district before U.S. forces repelled the gunmen, a guard for Iraqi Accordance Front leader Adnan al-Dulaimi said. BASRA - Gunmen killed three men and one woman in an attack on their car at a road junction in central Basra, a police official said. MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead an office worker for Iraqiya state television in the northern city of Mosul on the doorstep of her home, police said. FALLUJA - Two U.S. Marines died on Saturday from wounds suffered in combat in Iraq's western Anbar province, the U.S. military said. One of them was killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint in Khaldiya, about 80 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad, killing three Iraqi civilians, including two children. Nine civilians were also wounded. DIYALA PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier was killed and two were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, on Saturday, the military said. AZIZIYA - Clashes between insurgents and police on Saturday killed two people and wounded eight more in Aziziya, a town southeast of Baghdad, police said. BAQUBA - The U.S. military said its forces killed four suspected insurgents linked to al Qaeda in Iraq and detained 11, including one dressed as a woman and pretending to nurse a baby, during a raid near Baquba. MAHAWEEL - Two members of the local town council were dragged from their car and killed by gunmen in Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, on Saturday night, police said. WAJEIYA - Gunmen killed Amir Shakir, a local council official and wounded three other people in the small town of Wajeiya, 25km (15 miles) east of Baquba, police said. BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds fell in several areas of Baghdad, with one in southern Baghdad wounding two people, police said. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS BAGHDAD - Baghdad was under a vehicle curfew for the third day. It was imposed after Thursday's bombings in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City that killed 202 people. CAMP BUCCA - The U.S. military said a detainee died on Saturday at Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq, of what appeared to be natural causes. The statement said the man had complained of chest pains and was under medical care when he died.
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